A sobering assassination aftermath
Pulse executive director, Maggie DeWitte, received a hostile response to her letter mourning the violent death of Charlie Kirk.
“I want to know if you sent a message like this when the lives of Minnesota politicians were gunned down in their own homes. Did you send a message like this for EVERY SCHOOL SHOOTING that has happened. Why the heavy partisanship? Why pick out one man who advocated for guns?”
Did you know this quote from him In April 2023, Kirk stated, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.
Please be aware of who you are worshipping… because it’s supposed to be God and LIFE, not Charlie Kirk who said gun deaths each year are worth it!”
For the record, we don’t ‘worship’ Charlie Kirk. We honor him.
For the record, we have written on school shootings as recently as two weeks ago.
For the record, Charlie Kirk was a national figure, a potential future president in the eyes of some, in contrast to the murdered state legislators in Minnesota. Their deaths are no less significant in the eyes of God and their family, but with less political impact nationally. We certainly mourn their deaths along with the deaths of all born and unborn people whose lives end in violence.
The real issue
That’s not what’s really bugging her, or a host of other naysayers who push back against our pro-life positions online.
In this case, what’s bugging her are guns. We understand. Honorable people can have different views on gun regulation. But it’s a different issue than abortion. And it’s not the focus of Pulse Life Advocates.
On the issue of Life, Charlie Kirk was a unique champion. Along with Kristan Hawkins, the keynote speaker at our upcoming November 22nd Christmas Gala, he was one of the best defenders of Life on college campuses. Said Kirk:
“We allow the massacre of a million and a half babies a year under the guise of women’s reproductive health. We are allowing babies to be taken away and discarded every single year, just saying they are not humans.”
“You are using dehumanizing language, saying ‘ohh it’s an embryo’; no, that’s a baby, made in the image of God, deserving protection. It is never right to justify the mass termination of people under the guise of saying that they are unwanted. That’s how we get Auschwitz, that’s how we got the greatest horror of the 20th century.”
It takes courage to make a statement like that.
It takes courage to step into the metaphorical lion’s den (college campuses) where you may not be surrounded by actual snarling lions, but rather smug, privileged (and often snarling) college students with ill will towards you.
Charlie was chased out of restaurants, heckled, and the recipient of repeated death threats. But that didn’t stop him from standing up for the little guy, our unborn brothers and sisters, in the face of unrelenting attacks by pro-abortion bullies.
We’re not bothered by this writer’s focus on guns. What’s notable is her lack of acknowledgment that a young husband and dad was murdered for simply speaking out on an important issue in the public square.
For simply exercising his First Amendment rights.
Where is the empathy?
Across the nation, we’ve been stunned not only by the lack of empathy toward the martyred Charlie Kirk, but the delight over his death so widespread on the Progressive Left.
An example:
@jessbritvich I wish we lived in a world without violence. If we did no one would know Charlie Kirk’s name.
Clearly, talking points were quickly disseminated on social medial platforms to be spewed out by an army of sociopaths being cultivated on our college campuses. So many said the same thing, it’s as if they’ve been coached. A lack of empathy characterizes the sociopath.
No doubt, the political right has it’s share of whack jobs. But the Left is particularly cursed with people who wish harm upon people with whom they disagree. In fact, they are very honest about it. YouGov America surveyed Republicans and Democrats a few days ago. They asked:
“Do you generally consider it to be acceptable or unacceptable for a person to be happy about the death of a public figure they oppose?”
77% of Republicans said it always unacceptable compared to only 38% Democrats.
These results aren’t that surprising. For the past ten years, how often have we heard that Donald Trump and anyone who voted for him are Nazis, fascists, deplorable, irredeemables, bigots, racists, sexists, chumps, or worse?
Pervasive violent rhetoric
How often have politicians on the Left employed violence-tinged rhetoric?
Former President Biden said, “time to put Trump in the bulls-eye.”
Former Representative, Dan Goldman, said Trump is so “dangerous” to Democracy that he “has to be eliminated.”
Nancy Pelosi:”I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be … “
A couple of their acolytes took them up on it and tried to kill then-candidate Trump.
Chuck Schumer went to the footsteps of the Supreme Court and bellowed,
“I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
And a disturbed young man took him seriously and traveled all the way across the country to carry out Schumer’s directive, before getting cold feet at the last minute.
The abortion issue corrupted the political Left. By embracing a political issue that asserts that an unborn human life not only has no intrinsic value, it goes further by sanctioning termination when that life is inconvenient.
It is only a matter of time until that mindset progresses to the natural next stage, that a right-to-life is contingent upon holding the correct progressive political positions.
That day has come.
We saw it erupt on October 7th, 2023, when Hamas butchered Israeli civilians attending a music fest and a significant swath of Left-leaning Americans cheered (below).
We see the anti-life sentiment growing exponentially with the shocking celebratory outburst by American progressives at Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Too many apparently view the Charlie Kirks of the world as enemy combatants, not their neighbor with whom to have a good-natured conversation on the issues, as Kirk encouraged.
What a tragic and sobering assassination aftermath.
Keep fighting courageously for the unborn Maggie!